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- There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the…
- The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.
- Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.
- At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software…
- There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make…
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- Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they're intended to be used for. — David Byrne
- Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. — Arthur C. Clarke
- There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no… — Tony Hoare
- If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you… — Bill Gates
- The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to… — Aaron Levie
- The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it… — Bruce Feiler
- By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. — Barry Schuler
- Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software. — Bill Gates
- If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. — Edsger Dijkstra
- Software sucks because users demand it to. — Nathan Myhrvold
- The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language.… — Freeman Dyson